I really am very grateful for the support from everyone in Scotland.
Scottish football has always been about Celtic and Rangers, but we’ve rattled some cages and that’s been good. The more competition they have, the better for Scotland as a whole.
I’m hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled me that she was so vexed she didn’t have a Scottish accent even though she was brought up down south.
In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It’s still the same.
It’s been such a special feeling pulling on that Scotland jersey since I was 16 years old.
Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in Scotland, and when I went to boarding school, I’d either be there or Scotland.
Margaret Thatcher’s decision to use Scotland as a testing ground for the poll tax was arguably the most disastrous attempt at fiscal engineering since London slapped the stamp tax on the American colonies in the 1760s.
The idea that an independent Scotland – having separated assets and liabilities from the rest of the U.K. – would expect the rest of the U.K. to be a lender of last resort, and of course be kind to them, doesn’t make any sense.
Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.
It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.
I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian’s Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.
Remember, the Arctic didn’t have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.
My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
Celtic and Ajax are great names in history. They both have great followings all over the world, not just in Holland and Scotland.
There’s not many people that look like me in Scotland.
I won’t tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is… but it might be somewhere on Skye.
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
Hearing the statistic that one in four children in Scotland suffer from poverty just made me think that if there is even a tiny thing I could do that would help then it was totally worthwhile.
Kenny Dalglish was the greatest to play for Liverpool and Scotland, so for someone like that to sign me was an honour.
It drove me crazy, Scotland. It was cold. It was abuse. It was snowing and everything. I was so cold that one day I faked an injury to go to the locker room.
I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
I lived in Scotland a long time, and I became aware of Mogwai really from the beginning. They seemed to be fusing hard music structure and sort of raw sonics. They’re just very creative thinkers, musical thinkers.
It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out.
Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.
The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.
I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.
In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.
I have caught some big eels in New Zealand, where the climate is very similar to Scotland. But they grow to around five feet long.
Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.
We can have enhanced devolution – greater powers in Scotland – but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that’s what most Scots want.
Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us.
Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland’s prospects?
Thankfully I’m not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
While growing up in Scotland, which has a large Indian population, I would end up eating a lot of Indian dishes. So, it is familiar to me.
My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.
In a lot of farther-flung places in Scotland people are guarded at first, but as soon as they get to know you they really hate you.
I was a fan like everybody else, even before I got called up for Scotland.
Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.
I’m William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them… Scotland is free!
I get on so well with lots of Scots, and a man who had a big influence on my career and was a great mate, Johnny Paton, was Scottish. But I became a hate figure in Scotland because of my views on football. That always made me chuckle, and it still does.
I love playing for Scotland; it’s my country, it’s where I was born, and every time I wear the badge it’s a dream come true – goosebumps.
I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I’ve always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.
In Scotland there’s just some of the best produce. I mean Argyll and Bute has a longer coastline than France.
In Scotland you can enter a comfort zone. I felt I had already developed a reputation there and felt it was important to prove I can play elsewhere.
I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.
I still love going back to Celtic Park now, whether it’s for Celtic or Scotland games, and seeing the atmosphere.
I’ll be arguing for Scotland to vote to stay in the E.U.
I have met in my life two big destroyers: Gorbachev, who destroyed the Soviet Union, and Cameron, who destroyed the United Kingdom to some extent, even if there is no wave of Scotland to become independent.
I was still only 19 when I went to Scotland, but it was a good loan move for me to play those extra games.
Scotland’s a pretty place. I mean, as long as it ain’t raining.
